After working in global health for over 30 years, Ruth Stark wrote a book to guide her daughter, Taryn, also an aid professional. To celebrate Mother’s Day, I’m sharing a chapter from it, which Ruth graciously agreed to have appear on how-matters.org. (You can see my March review of How to Work in Someone Else's Country …

Do you have a colleague that just won’t shut up about the fight he’s having with his sibling over their family's vacation home? Or one who dressed way too provocatively when you were on that field visit last week? What about the person who constantly blames everything that doesn’t go their way on the incapacity or corruption of “the locals”?

We have all worked with these people. Perhaps we have even been these people at times. We didn’t know any better…until we did.…

150 million people in the United States are perennially poor, newly poor, or near poor. That’s right, the latest Census figures show that half of America is officially poor. In this so-called economic powerhouse of a…

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Dear Friends,

Greetings and best wishes to you on behalf of the poor children from India

I am very glad to request you to get your kind favor and small donation help to poor children in India to provide them with Education opportunity.

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Coca-Cola Enterprises has launched an online version of its 2009 Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CRS) Report, now accessible here. The online version of “Clear on our Commitments: Our Journey to 2012” includes new interactive features, such as scrolling photo “filmstrips,” embedded CRS videos, and an interactive quiz to test your CRS knowledge.



This environmentally-friendly online version…